KIEV, Sept. 3 - Austria's Henkell&Sohnlein Sektkellereien Gesellschaft m.b.H, part of Henkell&Sohnlein Group, has bought a 26.214% stake in Kiev's Stolychny champagne factory, according to an official report by the factory.

WARSAW, Sept. 3 - Economic factors in Ukraine and Russia mean that the supply of workers from these states to Poland may be too small to satisfy demand, daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita wrote Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukraine's Bogdan will deliver 360 small city buses worth over $10 million to Tbilisi city hall by the end of this year, company spokesman Serhiy Krasulia has told the press.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Wiener Borse in September will start calculating the Ukrainian Traded Index (UTX) on the basis of quotations of the most liquid securities listed on the PFTS, the leading Ukrainian stock exchange.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – UkrNafta plans to expand its chain of filling stations from 563 to 588 outlets by the end of 2007, UkrNafta’s first deputy chairman for economy and finance Volodymyr Pustovarov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 31 ??“ Ukrainian wine producers say a campaign to discredit domestic wines is underway in Ukraine.

TIRASPOL, Aug. 31 - Igor Smirnov, leader of the breakaway republic of Transdniestria, has said he hopes Ukraine's new government will lift the economic blockade on his country.

KIEV, Aug. 31 ??“ The Antimonopoly Committee announced it has allowed Klaipedos Kartonas (Lithuania) to buy over 50% of Nemuno Banga-Mena (Chernihiv region).

KIEV, Sept. 1 ??“ Kiev-based Overline Concern, a large alcohol producer in Ukraine, is considering buying a distillery in Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - Ukraine??™s state-owned natural gas supplier Gaz Ukrayiny has reduced supplies of natural gas to the country??™s biggest utility, KievEnergo, by 40%, Gaz Ukrayiny said Friday.